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Re: gEDA-user: trace calculation



On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:27:20PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> On my AMD motherboard, the bus traces have s-shaped wiggles in them to
> keep the lengths all the same.  Rounded corners, too.

The rounded corners are probably overkill.  Those traces have
to carry 3.2 GB/s, IIRC.  So response up to ~10 GHz matters,
and the relevant distance scale is 3 cm.  Anything smaller
than 3 cm only shows up in its net capacitance, inductance,
and time delay.

    - Larry

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